John Dawson has been a senior lecturer at Middlesex University; worked extensively in the professional theatre, playing for master classes and rehearsals for artistes such as Sir Anthony Dowell, and directed musical theatre from Mediaeval Mystery Plays in Canterbury Cathedral to pantomime at Buxton Opera House. He wrote the incidental music for Bedford Theatre Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth. One of his three published stage works, The Inside Story, has received performances in Europe, New Zealand and the USA.